Nova Ren Suma
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 Nova Ren Suma | |
| Born |
February 23, 1975 New York, US |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2009 - present |
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
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Nova Ren Suma (born February 23, 1975) is an American author of young adult novels, including The Walls Around Us, Imaginary Girls, Fade Out, and 17 & Gone.
Life and career
Nova has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a BA in writing and photography from Antioch College.
She’s been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Millay Colony, and, twice, from the MacDowell Colony. She attended the Launch Pad Workshop, a NASA-funded astronomy workshop for writers.
She has been an ice-cream scooper, a babysitter, a daycare worker, a bookstore cashier, an intern at magazines and literary journals, an assistant at a literary agency that focused on mysteries and whodunits, an editorial and production associate at a small-press publisher, an artist's assistant, an assistant editor of X-Men comic books, a copy editor, a ghostwriter, and a production editor for a children's book publisher.[1]
Her short stories for adults have appeared in publications including Small Spiral Notebook, The New School’s LIT magazine, Orchid, Gulf Coast.
She grew up in small towns across the Hudson Valley and now lives in New York City.[2][3][4]
Bibliography
Books
- The Walls Around Us, Algonquin Young Readers (2015)
- 17 & Gone, Penguin/Dutton (2013)
- Fade Out, Simon Pulse (2012)
- Imaginary Girls, Penguin/Dutton (2011)
- Dani Noir, Simon & Schuster/Aladdin (2009)
Short stories
- "Some Kind of Happy Life", The Portland Review (spring 2007)
- "Last Resort", Small Spiral Notebook (volume 3, issue 2 2006)
- "No Vacancy", LIT Magazine (issue 11 2006)
- "Ghost Story", New York Stories (2003)
- "Hanami", Orchid (2002)
- "Mars, New York", Gulf Coast (2001)
References
- ↑ "Nova Ren Suma". simonandschuster.com.
- ↑ "Amazon.com: Nova Ren Suma: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". amazon.com.
- ↑ Nova Ren Suma. "Nova Ren Suma - Official website of YA author Nova Ren Suma". novaren.com.
- ↑ "About". distraction no.99.
External links
- Official website
- Blog (official)
- Imaginary Girls book site (official)
- Nova Ren Suma at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Nova Ren Suma at Library of Congress Authorities, with 5 catalog records
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